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Monday, February 08, 2010

Peoples' World Conference

on Climate Change and theRights of the Mother Earth

(This was sent to me by the Bolivian Mission to the UN, it details their upcoming programme in La Paz. Contact information can be found at the end, I strongly urge anyone to pass this information around and attend if you can)

NEWSLETTER NO.1, 25 January 2010www.cmpcc.orgRegistration opens for Peoples' World Conference on Climate Change andthe Rights of the Mother EarthJust over a month after President Evo Morales of Bolivia issued his call atCopenhagen for “the people to decide,” registration has opened for the Peoples'World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth. Youcan register for the conference at: http://200.105.147.98/indexe.phpJoin a Working GroupThe work of organizing the conference begins in February, when more than 16 working groups will begin the preparation via email on key climate issues. These working groups include Structural Causes, Harmony with Nature to “Live Well,” Rights of the Mother Earth, Referendum on Climate Change, Climate Justice Tribunal, Climate Refugees, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Debt, Shared Vision, Kyoto Protocol and Emission Reduction Commitments, Adaptation, Financing, Technology Transfer, Forests and Climate Change, Dangers of Carbon Markets, Action Strategies, and others based on the suggestions of participants.The working groups will discuss these issues in advance of the conference and prepare draft documents for discussion in Cochabamba.The Conference ProgramIn addition to the working groups, there will also be a series of main plenary events and self organized events put together by participants. The conference will end with a dialogue among peoples and governments and a mass event in Cochabamba's football stadium on April 22nd, 2010. More information on the program of the conference can be seen at: http://cmpcc.org/2010/01/05/call/ More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the summit, to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, from April 19th to 22nd, 2010. Many more will also participate via the Internet, and in campaign actions on the final day of the conference, April 22nd, which marks UN International Mother Earth Day. Groups mobilize to make conference a success.From the moment the conference was announced, Bolivia has received countless requests for information from a wide range of civil society organizations. For what Copenhagen showed was that while the leaders of the world's richest nations failed to deliver a just and binding accord, peoples' movements were hugely successful in putting climate change on the international agenda. Many of those groups are now engaging with the Peoples' World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth to put forward a constructive and effective agenda and platform for tackling climate change.Many initiatives are in the early stages, but there are already proposals from Britain for a working group on labor and green jobs, youth activists in Bolivia are talking of putting on a parallel youth climate event, activists in the US are exploring bringing delegations of people affected by environmental contamination in industrialized countries. Other groups are already announcing platforms that they would like to be adopted globally. The hosts of the conference are open to all ideas for making this unprecedented event a success. The key to this will be for social organizations to push forward these initiatives and put the resources into them to make them succeed.What you can do to support the conference?If you represent a social organization, academic institution, youth, women, laboror religious organization committed to tackling the root causes of climate change.. .! Register and come to the conference http://200.105.147.98/indexe.php! If you can't come, put it on your calendar. We hope to set up virtual participation if we can find the resources! Publicize it to your networks! Blog, write, twitter, and talk about it! Get involved in one of the working groupsIf you represent the media...! Sign up to attend or receive press releases by emailing media@cmpcc.org! Cover the eventIf you represent a funding body...! Look to fund the participation of delegates from other Southern countries and from low-income communities who wouldn't otherwise be able to participateCONTACTSGeneral inquiries and registration – info@cmpcc.orgWorking Groups - workingroup@cmpcc.orgSelf-Organized events - selforganized@cmpcc.orgPress inquiries – media@cmpcc.orgwww.cmpcc.org